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Turanga Leela, known simply as Leela, is a fictional character in the animated television series Futurama, voiced by Katey Sagal. Leela is captain of the Planet Express Ship and is the primary love interest of one of the series' main male protagonist, Philip J. Fry. She is originally believed to be a cyclopean alien, but in "Leela's Homeworld" she discovers that she is actually a sewer mutant. In the episode "The Problem with Popplers" her family name, Turanga was used for the first time. The episode "Less Than Hero" establishes that among Leela and her parents, their family name, "Turanga", is placed before the given name.

Originally a career placement officer for new defrostees at a cryogenics lab in the year 2999, Leela quit her job after meeting Philip J. Fry, a defrostee from 1999, and Bender, a high-tech job-deserting girder bending robot. Together they are employed as the crew for Planet Express, an intergalactic delivery business run by Hubert J. Farnsworth. Leela serves as captain of the Planet Express Ship, proving herself to be a skilled officer and often rescuing her less-talented coworkers from peril.

Leela's and Fry's relationship is a major plot line that runs throughout the series. Fry constantly seeks her approval, though she turns him down for dates consistently due to his immaturity, yet she has been quoted as saying that she loves his boyish charm. Of course, there are various moments when she does fall for him even briefly, especially whenever he would risk his life for her. She sees him as a true friend and does not want anything less of him, but it constantly appears as if she is hiding (and denying herself) deeper feelings for him. At the end of the film Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, Leela openly admits to loving Fry, and shows greater attraction to him from the episode "Rebirth" onward. In "The Prisoner of Benda" they have sex, albeit in differing bodies.

Leela's orphan upbringing and mysterious origins have helped fuel the development of her character over the course of the series. Despite her strong-willed nature, she often feels self-conscious about her distinct appearance, In the episode "A Bicyclops Built For Two", Leela enters an unhappy relationship with Alcazar, a cyclops who convinces her that he and she are the last two members of their extinct race, only to discover that he is a shapeshifting impostor. She meets her parents, Morris and Munda, two sewer-dwelling mutants, for the first time in the episode "Leela's Homeworld". Her parents gave her up to an orphanarium with a note indicating that she was an alien, so that she would have a better life than a typical mutant.

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